24 FISHERIES OP ALASKA TN 1907. 



and silver salmon caught, the bellies being cut from these fish and 

 salted. Red salmon are generally taken in Ranch Creek, Kesuyak 

 Bay, Eagle Harbor, and Malinof Straits, while the silver salmon come 

 from Ranch Creek, Malinof Straits, and Kesuyak Bay. Humpback 

 and dog salmon are found in abundance, but are not utilized. 



Uyalc.— The only cannery at this place is operated by the North- 

 western Fisheries Company. Heavy storms in the winter washed 

 away houses on Karluk Spit, where seine crews are installed during 

 the fishing season, and bad weather early in the season materially 

 interfered with fishing operations in 1907. The caimery secured a 

 full pack, however. 



Karluk. — The two large canneries operated here are owned by the 

 Alaska Packers' Association. A very good run of fish into the lagoon 

 early in the season soon slackened and for some time the plants were 

 behind their packs of the previous year; but later exceptionally large 

 runs enabled them to make up the deficiency, and to ship, as early as 

 July 30, the first full cargo of salmon to come out of Alaska in 1907. 

 These plants like\dse suffered from the previous winter's heavy storms, 

 but not so seriously as the Uyak cannery. 



Alitak. — The superintendent of the cannery at this place, which is 

 operated by the Alaska Packers' Association, reports the earliest run 

 of red salmon known in eighteen years; and the run remained so 

 exceptionally heavy that the cannery packed its full outfit for the 

 first time in several seasons. 



Chignik. — It had been the intention to make a close inspection of 

 the fish traps located in the lagoon at this place, in regard to which 

 complaint was made in the 1906 report, but it was found impossible, 

 owing to limited transportation facilities, to make the desired inves- 

 tigation here without foregoing the more important trip to the west- 

 ward. Last year the lagoon was apparently completely blocked 

 with traps, three of which belonged to the Alaska Packers' Association, 

 three to the Northwestern Fisheries Company, and one was owned and 

 operated jointly. The superintendent for the latter company states 

 that the conditions have been remedied this season by changing the 

 location of some of the traps and reducing the leads in others. The 

 run of fish was very good nearly the whole of the season, and pros- 

 pectors recently come from the lakes are said to have reported them 

 full of salmon. Some dissatisfaction arose this year over the question 

 of Sunday labor. The fishermen refused to work on Sunday except 

 during the actual fishing, and the cannery employees, who receive 

 much smaller wages, claimed the same privilege in vain. Owing to 

 the shortness of the salmon-canning season in central and western 

 Alaska, Sunday work has been universal. 



